Sunday · August 23 2026

Wide open today, James — nothing on the books to work around.

Nothing on the calendar today.

Needs attention

Nothing needs you this morning.

Resolved

Looking ahead
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Vegas flight departs Wednesday evening

WN 4949 leaves Phoenix at 5:45pm Wednesday — three days out, still worth locking down a ride to the airport and packing ahead of the morning of.

Robinhood

Your Agentic account is worth about $225.04 total — $133.40 sitting in cash and roughly $91.64 spread across four small positions: Archer Aviation (ACHR), Joby Aviation (JOBY), Lucid (LCID), and SoFi (SOFI).

Trade ideas for today

Working from $133.40 in available cash, 40% ($53.36) split evenly into two ideas: $26.68 (high risk/reward) into ACHR — already your most volatile holding, roughly 4.24 more shares at today's price near $6.29 — and $26.68 (moderate risk/reward) into SOFI — your most liquid position, roughly 1.41 more shares at today's price near $18.91.

Not financial advice — for informational purposes only.

Off the Clock

Words of wisdom

“Fall seven times, rise eight.” — Japanese proverb (七转び八起き). More here.

Something new to learn today

Reservoir sampling is a family of algorithms for picking a uniformly random sample from a stream of unknown or unbounded size, using only a fixed amount of memory. It's how you'd fairly sample one item from a firehose of data without ever knowing in advance how many items you'll see. More here.

On this day

In 1991, the World Wide Web was opened to the public for the first time. More here.

TIL

Space telescope images actually start out black and white — astronomers assign colors to different wavelengths afterward to reveal details like composition and temperature. More here.